I just upgraded my NV+ with 2 extra 2TB disk. With the X raid calculator it calculated that I was going to get 3.67 TB, however I ony get 2.74 TB as the 2 TB disk only allocate 927 GB
Unfortunately that didn't work, I am running on RAIDiator 4.1.10 the Firmware on the seagate disk is CC3C. I know there is a newer version but I don't think that wil solve the problem.
Seagate firmware is a complicated subject, the only way to tell is to use their utility (which needs the drive serial number, and has a very annoying captcha...) I agree the drive firmware isn't likely to be the cause here.
Is journaling disabled or disk-spindown enabled? If so, try enabling journaling and disabling spindown, and reboot again.
I only have tablets and laptops in the house so a Seagate HD Firmware upgrade is going to be a challange. I am in the proces of my third factory reset. First with one 2 TB disk and then the other both times 1862 GB was allocated. Now I put in all the disk's again. Slot 1+2 1TB and slot 3+4 2TB and another factory reset. It is raing cats and dogs and have nothing else to do so ..... If this doesn't work i will try your option although I don't remember ever seeing a "disk-spindown" option.
Thanks and hopfully in 11 hours or so I can report a positive result.
and what is the differance between Flexraid en X-Raid and how can I change this?
With X-RAID you would have a single volume using the capacity of the smallest disk. Expansion will occur automatically.
With Flex-RAID volumes cannot be expanded. However you can create multiple volumes (up to four - two including any given disk) e.g. to make full use of the space available when using disks of different capacities.
Switching to flexraid requires a factory reset, which will wipe your disks (deleting data and configuration). You have a 10 minute window after the reset starts to select flexraid - you do this with RAIDar.
Thanks a lot and my sincere apologies I have been reading and googling night and day. As I honor my name (ReadyNAS Newbie) and the NAS was second hand i didn't get a manuel with it. Will read everything I can fin about flexraid. Thanks again.
No need to apologize. The link in my earlier post is the manual. I was just thinking it would be quickest for you to start with there, and then follow up here with questions. All the RAID modes can be confusing.
I think that FlexRaid will let you set up one raid-5 volume that spans all 4 disks (which would be ~3 TB of space, and is basically what you have now), and then add a second RAID-1 volume that uses the extra space on drive 3 and 4 (giving you the additional ~1 TB). Though I have not personally set up a system like this.
